Job Description

Company Description

Founded in 1926 by Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet, today Publicis Groupe is the second largest communications group in the world and a leader in marketing, communication, and digital business transformation, led by Arthur Sadoun, the third CEO in its history. Publicis Groupe is positioned at every step of the value chain, from consulting to execution, combining marketing transformation and digital business transformation. Publicis Groupe is a privileged partner in its clients' transformation to enhance personalisation at scale. The Groupe relies on ten expertise concentrated within four main activities: Communication, Media, Data and Technology. Through a unified and fluid organisation, its clients have a facilitated access to all its expertise in every market. Present in over 100 countries, Publicis Groupe employs around 98,000 professionals.

The Manager - Talent Acquisition is a key critical role for driving the Talent Acquisition Strategy for all Publicis Groupe's brands and practices across the MENA region.


The role's responsibilities are centered around the enablement of a smoother, better and faster recruitment experience focusing on strong talent pipeline building, attracting transformative talents and data and people analytics.


A key aspect of the role is meeting the changing recruitment needs of the company's fast-paced environment by managing all the recruitment activities to hire top talents for the assigned current or future roles.

Technical & Product

• Use Applicant Tracking System (SmartRecruiters) to it's full potential for end-to-end recruitment cycle from job creation until offer issuance.
• Conduct competency-based interviews for thorough assessment of talents.
• Use different recruitment tools to source for candidates.

Business Acumen & Operational Efficiency

• Have a consultative approach and act as a trusted advisor to hiring managers during briefing session and throughout recruitment process.
• Manage full recruitment lifecycle for roles at all levels from sourcing through offer issuance.
• Build a strong talent pipeline of diverse and qualified talents for niche roles for faster turnaround time.
• Ensure to achieve set recruitment KPIs.
• Prioritize internal talents for current and future openings.
• Drive best-in-class candidate experience to position Publicis Groupe as employer of choice.
• Assess recruitment needs and determine when to involve external recruitment agencies.
• Ensure constant collaboration and knowledge sharing across different verticals within the Talent team.

Innovative & Analytical Mindset

• Analyze recruitment data for execution of innovative recruitment strategies.
• Tailor to the different hiring needs of each brand and practice by being agile and flexible in ways of working.
• Create hiring programs and potential partnerships with universities to fulfil business needs.
• Strategic market mapping for niche/critical roles.
• Partner with Education and Performance Management teams on succession planning.

People & Leadership

• Seeks others' feedback to develop self-awareness, strengths and address development area.
• Is able to proactively raise issues to improve effective team working and collaboration.
• Is able to communicate confidently in a clear, concise and articulate manner.
• Collaborates with stakeholders and embraces an inclusive based environment.
• Is able to make valuable contributions to discussions and brainstorming sessions, providing insight and point of view.
• Able to build relationships quickly with others and engages personally with peers and clients.
• Treats others with respect, listens to other perspectives, especially when they are different from own.
• Able to tackle problems in a timely manner and develop contingency plans that focus on problem resolution.
• Drives a culture of trust with Peers, clients and all other stakeholders.

Self

• Is able to take ownership for actions and deals with consequences in a mature manner.
• Able to adjust performance based on experiences and feedback and showcases agility and flexibility.
• Displays openness to the ideas of others and leverages them when beneficial for the business.
• Showcases curiosity and open mindset towards new ways of doing things.
• Is able to set high impact objectives and goes above and beyond to exceed performance.
• Demonstrates the Growth Mindset and is able to take ownership of personal development and growth.
• Capable of constructively challenging the status-quo and takes risks to challenge internal and external perspectives.
• Approaches situations and individuals with honesty, integrity and humbleness.
• Displays resilience and maintains drives and a positive outlook when faced with challenges.



Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Talent Acquisition role.
• Experience in media and communications industry is preferred.
• Experience in managing and upskilling team members.
• Proven experience of delivering successful projects in complex matrixed organizations.
• Broad understanding of the agency model and its evolution into the platform-based agency of the future.
• Experience of managing up and across with the ability to navigate a complex stakeholders' matrix.